Agriculture around Ault, ColoradoJuly 5, 2006: Joyce and I will spend the night in Robidoux RV-Park operated by the city of Gering, Nebraska N41° 48.757' W103° 40.644' phone: 308-436-2046. They have paved interior roads with concrete pull-thru pads featuring green grass overlooking Scotts Bluff the bluffs so often mentioned by travelers on the Overland Trail: 50-amps, water and sewer, $15. We normally like to stay in PPA (Pass Port America) Campgrounds because of the 1/2 price arrangement but one was not near where we wanted to stay.
We headed north out of Greeley on the 5th of July heading to Scotts Bluff, Nebraska where we plan to meet up with the old Overland Trail (Oregon Trail, Mormon Trail, California Trail). While the Overland Trail started in Independence, Missouri we are going to start following it west from Scotts Bluff, Nebraska. Ault,
Colorado in the shadow of the Rocky Mountains is NE, Colorado
Ault is the first city come to as we headed north out of Greeley, Colorado. Ault is an agricultural community as you can see by the grain elevators and RR tracks beside US-85.
As we head north out of Greeley we are overwhelmed by the sight of so much agriculture. Fields of onions, beans, alfalfa and corn fill open spaces while silos and grain elevators make up the small towns. Joyce took this picture from our motorhome as we traveled north on US-85 as we were nearing Ault.
Dairy operation east of Ault, Colorado
In Ault we turned east on SR-14. Joyce was documenting the change in scenery from her navigator's seat in the front of our motorhome. Irrigation makes this all possible, including this dairy operation just east of Ault.
East of Ault and 24-miles to Briggsdale, Co on SR-14
Eastern Colorado is in the rain-shadow of the Rocky Mountains and traditionally only gets around 12 to 15 inches of rain each year. Land that is not irrigated is still short grass prairie. In the small town of Ault on US-85 10-miles north of Greeley we turn east for around 50-miles on SR-14 where we quickly run out of irrigated land. Not long after the irrigated land disappears we enter Pawnee National Grasslands where the traditional short-grass prairie is being maintained as it was in the 1800's. Land not part of the Pawnee National Grasslands system is being used as open range land or cultivated for grain. Throughout our journey today we see huge fields of grain probably some type of wheat.
No irrigation east of Ault, Colorado and things are dry as in short grass prairie
Joyce took this along SR-14 as we travel east toward Biggsdale, Colorado. As you can see there is no irrigation on this land.
East of Ault, Colorado on SR-14
Agriculture dominates the economy around Ault and points east. Joyce took this picture a good distance east of Ault on SR-14.
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